Security Officer

Job description

What you'll be doing

Join the UK Parliament as a Security Officer and play a vital role in keeping the House of Commons safe, secure and accessible, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Based at the iconic Parliamentary Estate, you'll work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment, protecting colleagues, visitors and buildings while supporting the democratic work of Parliament.

You'll be responsible for controlling access, conducting searches and screening people, vehicles and premises, monitoring CCTV, responding to alarms and identifying potential security threats. You'll also patrol the Estate, challenge unusual or suspicious activity and provide a professional, welcoming service to the more than one million visitors who come to Parliament each year.

This is a unique opportunity to develop specialist security skills in one of the UK's most high-profile environments. Security experience is welcomed, but transferable skills, sound judgement, physical fitness and excellent customer service are equally valued.

Find out more about working at the House of Commons.

Why Join us?

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including but not limited to:

• Generous annual leave starting at 30 days and increasing to 35 after one full working year.
• Enrolment in the excellent Civil Service pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Flexible working options that help you find a balance including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave, caring leave and alternative working patterns.

What we're looking for

• Experience of working with diverse groups of people, with great customer service skills, and also working well within a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good security awareness, with the ability to follow relevant policies and procedures.
• Ability to gather relevant information to fully understand incidents.

How to Apply

If you would like to apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter with an 500-word limit.

More information on the application process can be found here: Application process - UK Parliament

Additional Information

Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.

Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.

We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.

Provisional Dates

• Assessment Day including Observational and Fitness Tests, Week Beginning 28th September 2026.
• Four available days are 1st to 4th October 2026.
• Final Interviews will take place on the same day.

As part of the selection process as Security Officers, we require a reasonable level of physical fitness to effectively carry out the duties of the job. This includes walking and patrolling the Estate, long periods of standing, lifting bags/trays and walking up stairs.

To assess this, the Assessment Day will include a multi-stage fitness test (also known as bleep test) to level 5.4, which is our standard required for this role. In addition, you will need to pass a full range of movement, comprehension and colourblind tests in order to reach the interview stage.

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